North Country At Work

Wayne Lincoln taking the front off of the main chest of a piano he’s repairing. Circa 2010. Massena, NY. For more information, check out our story on Wayne Lincoln and his piano repairs. 

Man at work in the machine shop at a paper mill. Circa 1920s. Town of Wilna, NY. Caption info compiled by Lynn Thornton, Laura Prievo, and Harold Sanderson for the Images of America book Around Carthage and West Carthage.

The interior of the Wilna Farms Company Butter and Cheese Factory, part of the Carter Family Dairy, run by A. Byron Carter. Note milk cans. Circa 1900. Carthage, NY.

Workers inside Wilna Machine, a machine shop that made machines for the paper industry around Carthage and West Carthage. Two workers stand in front of machinery used to make more machines. Circa 1900-1910. Carthage, NY.

Known as Arnot Hardware Store or Arnot’s Plumbing & Heating Company, owned by William Arnot, pictured here. Note small boy on work bench (far left near corner of window), shiny new galvanized tubs, and vise in front of Arnot. This business became Bushnell & Bassett under new ownership in the early 1900s. Circa late 1890s. […]

Putting through a cut near Crooked Trestle or between Streeter & The Jackworks. Pictured are more than 20 men using picks and shovels to dig a road bed. Circa 1910-1920. Town of Clifton, NY. From the William Kellogg Collection.

Ivan Scott operating machinery inside the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation chem lab. Circa 1940s. Benson Mines, NY.

Homer Lenon pours liquids into glass beakers in the chem lab of the Jones and Laughlin iron ore operation. Circa 1940s. Benson Mines, NY.

Smoothing the cement foundation during construction of the Cranberry Lake Fire Hall. Circa early 1960s. Cranberry Lake, NY.

Construction of the Cranberry Lake Fire Hall. Men working with piles of gravel, wheelbarrows, and shovels. Circa early 1960s. Cranberry Lake, NY.